Of
all the musical genres I know, the one I find the truly hardest to
explain is “electronic”. Here we have one great big huge field of
musical beauty (and terror) where anything that has even the slightest
hint of using a keyboard other than a Bosendorfer piano is instantly
reduced to “anybody can do it.” Sure. Right. Whatever.

These people have never heard Dead Poets Society. Neither had I until
about an hour ago. Read on. The biography from this band was very
“factual”. The Electric Haze is their debut album. Wa is the
programmer, percussionist, songwriter, and “driving force behind the
music”. Gibson also works the boards, providing more of the ethereal
facets behind the music.” Raven Nightshado performs keyboards, vocals,
and the more “melancholic” facets behind the music. Etc. etc.etc. Very
factual.
What the biography does not explain, in my humble opinion, is how three simple “people” created such an amazing album!

Define
the music? That’s easy. Unfortunately they don’t have a genre for
“brilliant, unique, that’s some damn fine coffee.” You can dance,
sleep, dream, regret, drive, f***, sit around, or do anything to this
music (with the exception of headbanging, unless you’re just plain
weird).

Electronic, perhaps, but with the creativity of
The Orb and Dead Can Dance intermixed with it. This album is a
beautiful, gentle ride through the kindest parts of chaos. A silent
world called delirium. You never know where the music may take you
next. From a smooth, rhythmic ride in “The Portal”, or visiting the
places where no one is innocent in “Damn Fine Coffee”. I found this
album dizzying, elating, chaotic, and hypnotic. Some of the BEST
“electronic” music I’ve heard in a long time. These three musicians are
planning a tour in support of this new album. I would urge you to check
them out.

Article originally appeared on thedeadpoets.org - official site of the U.S. band, and the endeavors of its members,Wa Conner and Jessica Griffin-Conner (http://www.thedeadpoets.org/).